I’ve eaten quite a lot of silverbeet this week. The plants are bolting so the larger leaves have gone all floppy and needed eating.
I’m getting decent amounts of purple sprouting broccoli at the moment which is nice, the only issue is; beating the rats to it as they are also nibbling away at the stalks. I also harvested the last of this (admittedly very long) season’s capsicums. The plants are still alive but don’t seem to be growing – not sure if they live to fruit another season.
Lunch today was corn fritters – I used the above capsicum and this coriander & parsley in them. The corn was from the freezer.
I want to pot up my scotch bonnet chilli plants so to encourage new growth I removed the last of last seasons chillies. Because they ripened over winter they have very little heat.
Coriander & Curry Leaves for rasam, the rest for vegetable stock.
I made Salsa Verde to go with some lovely fresh Rockling so that meant Chervil, Dill, Parsley & Coriander.
Its been cold for the last few days but Spring is about to arrive this weekend with forecasts in the mid 20’s. Perhaps it will bring with it some hearts for my final winter vegetables – my cabbages which seem very slow this year….or do I think that every year…..
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Lovely harvest photos. I love the way you’ve centered in on the object you’re photographing. Looking forward to following your start into summer season as our season here is ending.
Thanks Emily, I enjoy taking pictures when I get the opportunity – sometimes difficult with little ones demanding you hurry up all the time…..
Even if they don’t have much heat – those scotch bonnet peppers look gorgeous!
Lots of beautiful greens and herbs in your harvest this week.
Beautiful photos! Those scotch bonnet peppers are just the cutest!! Lucky you going in to spring while we are going in to fall.
Love all the herbs this week! I especially love those little scotch bonnets! They’re so pretty!
Your herbs and peppers are beautiful. You obviously have great weather there. The only good thing about our weather is we do get a few months break from gardening in the winter, until the seed catalogs arrive.
Beautiful harvest!
beautiful peppers. So I guess you overwintered them? Pretty purple broccoli too! I need to find some, my daughter eats practically anything I bring in from the garden that is purple.
These peppers were still on the plant from autumn and slowly ripened over winter – the plants look OK so I think they will start to reshoot and grow again. Hot peppers generally make it through OK but I haven’t managed a bell pepper yet – maybe this year…..
Thanks everyone – I’m a bit of a fan of both herbs and photographing them – I will be very excited when I have colours other than green and the occasional splash of red in my harvests though.
I miss not not growing silver beet and all vairety of chard this year. It such a wonderful plant to have growing, not just for eating but for admiring too.
Absolutely – I’ve just noticed my rainbow chard germinating and I’m looking forward to seeing which colours have come up.
Your chard is so pretty and bug free – I had to cut mine down to the nubs because the ants had a huge aphid farm going. Such beautiful peppers, you must not get frost in your climate. Sorry to hear about the rat damage, those nasty critters are so hard to control.
Thanks Michelle, We dont get frost which is lovely and makes gardening very pleasant I must say. Ants farm aphids on my tamarillo tree and I find blasting them with water usually dislodges fairly effectively – whether chard would withstand the water pressure I dont know. I know you suffer from rats as well – you have my sympathies.
Beautiful harvest! Our chard outer leaves are starting to flop too and the leaves tasted bitter for my taste now. That capsicum is such a treasure and shining!